abstract:The Museumplein (; ) is a public space in the borough Amsterdam South in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Located at the Museumplein are three major museums - the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, and Stedelijk Museum - and the concert hall Concertgebouw.
The reopening coincides with improvements to the two other stellar museums in the immense public space known as the Museumplein, in the affluent Old South quarter.
"It sometimes seems as if everything that could have gone wrong with the Museumplein building projects has gone wrong, " said Wim Pijbes, the Rijksmuseum's general director, told The Art Newspaper back in 2011.
In Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, most of the hundreds of thousands of people who'd gathered in the Museumplein square to watch the game on a giant screen filtered out in stunned silence after the final whistle, leaving behind trampled orange hats and a smattering of tearful people sitting on crates with their heads in their hands.